A visit from Scientology's Enemy Number 1
Warns of claims to world power
Nine Months in the Sect Hell
Hamburg, Germany
April 7, 2000
2000 Hamburger MORGENPOST Online
"The purpose of today's event is only to prevent you from
finding out what Scientology really is." - That was on a leaflet
which an ardent Scientologist distributed in front of the
Interior Agency yesterday. He would not have been pleased
with what was going on inside: Scientology's "Enemy
Number 1," the U.S. American Bob Minton was relating his
experiences in the fight.

At his side sat Stacy Brooks, who worked in the "Sea Org"

in the sect's headquarters and then left. The two came to
Hamburg at the invitation of Sect Commissioner Ursula
Caberta. What they had to relate explained why the
organization, which wants to much to be a church, may not
be a church.

Stacy Brooks: "I supported the the Scientologists' ideas, but
I became skeptical. All at once I was promoted in the 'Sea
Org' and was directly under sect chief David Miscavige. I
found out that the boss did not want anything good. They are
a market-oriented corporation that only wants one thing: to
increase money." Because Brooks did not carry out orders,
she was locked up for nine months without her being
permitted to see her family. The graceful woman continued,
"I was interrogated without stop and had to run for 12 hours
at time in circles. It was torture to make me 'introverted'."

Bob Minton was never a Scientologist. He began to get
interested in the machinations of the sect when he read about
the Lisa McPherson case on the internet. The young woman,
who died, had apparently been locked up and starved by
U.S. Scientologists. Scientology regards Minton as "Enemy
Number One" - its arch-enemy. For years he has been
fighting in the "Lisa McPherson Trust" against the
organization which is powerful in the USA, is registered as a
church, and to which diverse Hollywood stars belong.

Minton calls the Scientology intelligence agency, OSA, a
"paramilitary organized Mafia" and prophesied, "If one were
to back them into a corner one day, they would resort to
violence. They possess rocket launchers, bazookas,
countless other weapons." Like Stacy Brooks, he is also
persecuted and threatened, and his family and business
partner are harassed.

The Hamburg Scientologists, who recently moved from
Steindamm to Dom Street, are "as good as broke," said
Ursula Caberta. "Unfortunately the Americans have injected
them with a good 20 million so that they can continue." The
state attorney's office is already investigating for deceptive
bankruptcy. Besides that, today verbal hearings begin today
in a complaint by the Scientologists against Caberta's work
group.

Bob Minton does not want to demonize the many
Scientologists who are doing volunteer work on the street:

"The are well-meaning people. But their management in the
Sea Org is totalitarian. Their management wants world
domination."